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The Science Behind Burrs (And PECM's Preventative Solution)
Burrs are direct evidence of mechanical failures found in most conventional manufacturing methods. PECM doesn't just act as a great deburring methodology but can be used to avoid burrs in the first place.
Kirk Abolafia
6 days ago7 min read


Breaking down the Hidden Costs of Conventional Machining Methods
Conventional processes may look easy economics on paper, but the challenges from potential problems like tool changes, recast layers, HAZ and more can create tremendous financial burdens down the line. PECM sidesteps many of these issues at-scale.
Kirk Abolafia
Jun 46 min read


How Faraday’s Law Enables Complex Metal Features
Faraday's Law- linking electrical charge to electrochemical material change- is a governing principle to Voxel's entire process model.
Kirk Abolafia
May 155 min read


Nitinol: Medtech’s Biggest Innovation... And Biggest Roadblock
Nitinol is becoming a critical material for next-generation medical devices because its shape-memory and superelastic behavior enable stents, orthopedic fixation devices, guidewires, and neurovascular tools to flex, compress, deploy, and recover shape inside the body. But those same properties make nitinol difficult to machine, creating demand for non-contact, non-thermal processes like PECM that reduce burrs, recast, tool pressure, and surface-integrity risks.
Kirk Abolafia
May 78 min read


The Impact of Heat-Affected-Zones (HAZ) on Scalable Medtech
In this article, we'll identify why HAZ is a prohibitively expensive and challenging problem to solve at scale, and how Voxel's PECM process, by avoiding HAZ, can enable new designs and scalability.
Kirk Abolafia
Apr 247 min read


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